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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Beautiful DIY pedestal candles (using dollar store items!)

Hello there! Can you believe I'm writing to you at night? I haven't done this for years now! Ah, the memories! I was out of town in Chicago yesterday and most of today so I'm sharing this late.

I'm continuing my dollar store candle DIYs with this beauty! You can see the snowy candles I shared earlier this week here. This is such a good one folks...I actually made these six years ago and I can't believe it's taken me this long to make them again! I think one of them broke a few years back and I never got to making a new match.

I started over with two this time and they are so pretty! You'll need two things from the dollar store -- a glass candlestick and a glass cylinder candle holder:

You can use any glue that will adhere glass. There's a few out there so just do what is easiest. This time I used this aquarium sealant I had from a past project:

Just few put a few little dabs along the top of the candlestick holder:

And center the larger candle holder on top. Leave it alone to cure for the recommended time -- my sealant said 24 hours so even though it was sticking fine within 20 minutes, I left them alone for awhile.

There are so many possibilities with these candle pedestals! I threw a few together to show you the different options for Christmas. I used cinnamon stick filler and nestled a glass votive inside with a tealight candle:

I love the simple look of some glittery berries too:

This is where I must say -- remember to never leave these unattended! If you want to use something like these berries I'd recommend a battery-operated candle -- I was using what I had to share these options with you.

I had some pretty glittery strands that I put in the bottom:

This simple one with a few sprigs of greenery is a favorite of mine!:

I love the fake snow in the bottom -- how pretty would that be with red candles? I wish I had red!:

I ended up using some gold sand I've had stored away -- it's so pretty!:

Watch out dollar stores after we all read both posts, lol. What did we do before there were excellent dollar stores? Family Dollar and Dollar General are both ok but their prices are beat all over by $trees. Love those places but I tend to keep dropping things in my basket then have to count if I don't have enuf money. With all the blinking 5 week months have had a few items usually have to go back. Can I count that as exercise running up and down aisles putting items back where they belong? Okay going to print out all these ideas to keep for next holiday season. On top of it all we don't get paid til day after Christmas, yeah is that the pits or what?Have wonderful rest of week Sarah and weekend

i did this a couple of years ago after seeing it on another blog! could not believe how amazing they looked because it only cost 2 dollars! you can have dozens if you need them all over the house without breaking the bank!

I made these a couple years ago and I agree - there are so many ways to dress them up! I usually tie a ribbon on mine to fancy them up, but they are so pretty as is...currently mine have candles in one, tiny glittery pinecones in another. Love them!

Last year the dollar store had blue glasses that I glued them to the candlesticks. The other thing I did was take the clear vases and glued bling on a roll from WalMart to the tops. I put fake snow, a pinecone, and a snowflake in them. Some I put a bottlebrush tree in. I used E6000 glue and Fabri-tac glue.Myrna